Nummer: 21101
| Area : | Arctic Ocean |
| Used weapon(s) : | Weapon or use of weapons unclarified |
| Convoy : | KB.1 |
| Date of sinking : | 16.01.1945 |
| Time of sinking : | 20:30 |
| Nationality of target : | Soviet |
| Actual type of target : | Destroyer |
| Name of target : | Deyatelnyi ex Churchill (I.45) |
| Year of launch : | 1919 |
| Actual tonnage : | 1190 ts |
| Actual result : | sunk |
| Position of target : | 68.56n 36.31e |
| Footnote : | U-956 fired a spread of 3 FAT and heard a detonation after 7:40 min. But "Deyatelnyi" was not lost before 16.1. - The loss of "Deyatelnyi" could not possibly have been caused by U-286/Dietrich on Jan.16th. This boat left Harstadt on Jan.14th and thus could not have reached the Kara Sea in the elsapsed time. The attack, which was claimed in ASS 1968 and 1983 edition, was possibly a double of the attack of U-286 on Feb.16th. - At last remains the possibility that the destroyer was sunk by mine or by internal explosion. "The reason of explosion on board of 'Deyatelnyi' may have been the preparation of depth charges as of U-boat alarme. Stern part of the destroyer got lost, thereafter. U-boat alarme may have been a mistake, as well." (Axel Niestlé, 28.2.2003). |
Destroyer Deyatelnyi ex Churchill (I.45) ex American Herndon (DD.198) (bis 1940)
| Convoy : | KB.1 |
| Route of convoy : | Kola Fjord - White Sea (soviet) |
| Remark to convoy : | Since Sommer 1941, annual new numbering (counter traffic = BK) |
| updated on: | 03.02.2003 |
| Remark: | Deyatelnyi |